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...sooner was the inauguration over, the captains and the troops departed, than Premier Manuel Azana drove to the Palace and insisted on handing in his resignation. Worried President Alcala Zamora called a meeting of statesmen, asked Premier Azana to form another government, which he grudgingly agreed...
...working his large jaw with its widely-spaced teeth up and down in the National Assembly last week, Provisional President, Premier & War Minister Manuel Azana made himself Dictator of Spain...
...obtain all the usual dictatorial power (previously held by such men as King Alfonso and Primo de Rivera), President Azana circulated rumors among the Deputies that a plot had been discovered by his Government "to end the Spanish Republic tomorrow morning." On the Assembly platform, however, the President's jaw worked thus...
After being vested with his new powers, Dictator Azana ominously declared: "We shall allow Catholics to hold all the meetings they desire . . . so long as they obtain the Government's permission first...
Later the National Assembly, again at Senor Azana's bidding, swept away the whole system of Catholic primary education. Article 46 of the new Constitution, now being built by the Assembly article by article, day after day, was adopted with cheers. It provides that "Primary education shall be free, public and non-religious," and pledges the Government to establish lay schools of higher learning...